HELP WITH ODOR CONTROL

[GoodGipp]

IF I hAVE sEALED ROOM WELL PARTIALLY SEALED HOW WOULD I GO ABOUT NOT HAVING THE SMELL GET TO THE REST OF THE HOUSE? I SEE MOST OF THE CARBON SCRUBBERS HAVE FANS ATTACHED THAT PULL THRU THE SCRUBBER AND VENTED OUT OF THE ROOM. I AM NOT READY TO BUY ONE OF THOSE VAPORTEK'S AT THIS TIME. ARE THERE ANY OTHER ALTERNATIVES? IS THERE A SUCH THING AS FREE STANDING CARBON SCRUBBER. ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED..

GG

 

[GoodGipp]

NO INPUT FROM ANYONE ????

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

It depends on the temperature of your house/grow room, the warmer it is the more smell. If you have quite a few plants you will defo NEED a carbon scrubber...

I sometimes use odour eliminators that are used for sewarage smells but they only mask the smell. I have a carbon scrubber but near harvest the smell still leaks out.

Security is your 1st priority.

 

[GoodGipp]

THANKS FOR THE INPUT. I CAN BUILD A CARBON SCRUBBER THAT'S NO PROBLEM. BUT SINCE THE ROOM IS SEALED I CANNOT ATTACH A FAN TO VENT IT OUT. ALSO WHERE DO YOU GET THE ODUR ELIMINATORS FROM?

 

[GoodGipp]

I CANNOT USE PM YET....

 

[Guest]

ona gel u can order it
or most hydro stores have it

heard its really strong how many plants u talkin bout growin brah

 

[GoodGipp]

I HAVE THREE IN THERE SECOND WEEK OF FLOWER AS OF NOW

 

[I.M. Boggled]

A product sold as "Renuzit" brand "super odor killer" can be a "pet skunk" owners best buddy.
Available very widely in the U.S.A @ grocery and discount/big box stores.
About one dollar U.S. a piece, buy and stock several (an arm-full) and (over) use them and replenish as needed...a low tech, cheap and very effective method of odor elimination.
A good product, their are many various fruitish Renuzit scents available, but the "Super Odor Killer" basically just eliminates and neutralizes very stinky odors in general without generating its own tell tale noticeable scent.

 

[NiteTiger]

The carbon scrubber I made out of a five gallon bucket sits on the floor with the fan on top.

Are you saying you're doing a sealed room grow? With CO2 and A/C and such? If so, a scrubber running in the room will be fine.

However, if you're pulling in air, you have to exhaust stinky air somewhere, and there's no better way to clean that stinky air than a carbon scrubber.

By the way, posting in all caps is considered rude, it's the internet equivalent of shouting.

 

[GoodGipp]

sorry for the caps hve to try and change my settings. so if I build a scrubber would I need a fan attached if the room is sealed. or could I just hang it in the room and let it do it's thing?

 

[NiteTiger]

Nope, gotta have a fan to move the air through the filter.

 

[Guest]

Good info NiteTiger. GoodGipp, I've got a sealed room also. Set it up to use co2 but haven't needed it so far. Anyway, if your room is sealed a free standing filter with an exhaust fan mounted to the top will exchange the air in the room and filter it while it's doing it. I had my entire grow happening in the closet so I set the closet up with a filter and fan strapped to a shelf in the top of the closet. It pulled air from inside the bigger portion of the sealed room, through the closet, through the filter and then back out into the main sealed room. Never had a problem with odor the entire grow. Whole house smelled like weed before I switched the fan on during the first part of flower.

Peace

 

[GoodGipp]

hey thanks mojo for the infO you also Nite Tiger. I was thinking of building a scrubber that is in the DIY thread on here would of those work?

 

[NiteTiger]

Yep.

I even took it a step easier with the one I made.

Basically all you need to remember is 1 thing - No air leaves the room without going through the carbon.

My filter is made from a 5 gallon bucket with lid. Inside the bucket is a circle of hardware cloth covered in window screening, held in place by high strength epoxy. The gives me about a 1 - 2 inch gap between the side of the bucket and the hardware cloth.

The outside of the bucket is drilled with TONS of inch size holes. A layer of window screening is over that as well.

Fill the gap between the hardware cloth and the side of the bucket with carbon, cut a hole in the lid for your fan, and boom, carbon filter. Course, you'll bust out the aluminum duct tape to seal where the fan meets the bucket.

 

[Guest]

As NiteTiger very well stated-"Basically all you need to remember is 1 thing - No air leaves the room without going through the carbon." I too made my own odor control. I have 4 1000w air cooled vented to a separate area. I run 2, 8" exaust fans (2 lights per fan) and 1, 8" inlet so it's easy to control all the air and create a neg. pressure. I got some plastic laundry hampers and made an 8" hardware cloth tube down the middle then lined everything with thin poly batting (the stuff quilters use). Then I filled them with TIDYCAT CRYSTALS!! They work so good I'm on my 2nd year with no smell at all. And we know how much a 4k room can smell. Don't need that dang ozone gen anymore
Cost 80.00 each.





Kept 100 of these perfectly odor free and they are 2 years old now.

 

[GoodGipp]

thanks Nite Tiger and IC user, you guys have been very helpful.

 

[NiteTiger]

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